When you complete your application, you will be asked to indicate your top 3 choices for research projects. The 2026 TURE REU program mentors and their respective projects include:

 

Materials/Energy

  • Professor Hank Ashbaugh
    • Title: “Binding of guests to synthetic hosts – molecular simulation investigation of the role of water in driving supramolecular assembly for use in delivery applications”
  • Professor Matt Montemore
    • Title: “Computational Design of Catalysts for Sustainable Energy Applications”
  • Professor Noshir Pesika
    • Title: “Fabrication of Water-Repellent Surfaces Inspired by the Lotus Leaf”

Health/Life Sciences

  • Professor Shuaihua Gao
    • Title: “Engineering bacteriophage through synthetic DNA assembly and rebooting”
  • Professor Daniel Howsmon
    • Title: “Elucidating non-canonical signaling mechanisms contributing to estrogen and TGFb myofibroblast transitions”
    • Title: “Creating informative clinical alerts to detect BTT shunt thrombosis”
  • Professor James Park
    • Title: “Cell type interaction dynamics in glioblastoma and the surrounding tumor microenvironment“
  • Professor Nicholas Sandoval
    • Title: “Engineering bacteriophage through synthetic DNA assembly and rebooting”

Environment

  • Professors Julie Albert & Daniel Shantz
    • Title: “Novel chemical conversion approaches for waste plastic upcycling”
  • Professor Vijay John
    • Title: “Technologies to mitigate the Red Tide harmful algal bloom”